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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ElrodKTPQ_89" data-source="post: 1427868" data-attributes="member: 18710">Been a while and absolutely zero progress has been made. A couple of you guys know what's up so I'll catch the rest of you up on what's been happening...To begin with, the car is not at my house, it is in the shop of a good friend who lives about 25 minutes away. When the engine swap progress started he offered to let me store the car there and work on it since I'm not able to get the car into my shop due to it being built off the ground...plus he had his welder and everything we would need in his shop so why not. Me and this guy go waaaay back, really good friends...He's one of the best painters in this area, has built and painted some really awesome cars around this area. He works as a painter at a body shop for a living but also does vehicles on the side out of his shop so he said it would be no problem to get my engine panels welded in and all of the bodywork/paint taken care of.  Well we all know how that buddy system stuff goes unfortunately....The guy has a wife and kid so I never wanted to get to pushy about getting to work on my car, plus I was working a lot too so we just messed with it when I was able. Around a month ago I ask him one day about doing some work on the car and he told me he was taking a break from all car related activities for a while and focusing on family stuff, which is cool I wasnt gonna argue anything with that. A little while later I found out that he and his wife were having problems over him spending too much time working on friends cars or his cars and not very much time with her or his son, so that explains the sudden hiatus. I played it cool and gave him a while to get things settled then just stopped hearing from him at all, no response to messages or anything else. I didn't have a key to his shop so I could only work on the car if he was home or had left the key at home...so when I don't hear from him after messaging him I really hated to drive all the way to his house planning on working on the car just for him to not be there. So finally one day last week I stopped by his house and talked to him. He apologized for everything and explained the situation and everything he had been going through. I told him I would be willing to just go ahead and pay for the car to get finished at the body shop if his boss would agree to it, so I'm waiting to hear back on that hopefully tomorrow or Tuesday. He said in the meantime he would try to dedicate some time to helping me get as much done on the car before going into the shop to try and save me as much money as possible if we do things that way. I'm not the only one waiting on a car to be painted either though.. I kinda feel like the bad guy in a way on this...don't wanna ruin a good friendship over a damn car, but I also want to get back to work on my damn car. If I can just get the engine bay done then I can get back to work on the rest of it. Paint and bodywork are out of my league, if I knew more about it then I'd do it myself but I can't do it all. Hopefully I'll have more progress to add in here soon. In the meantime just keep your fingers crossed for me that things will start working out. <img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170717/7738ce21b8ccbbde1eb89321e3d2cd7d.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>